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1. Property Tax Limitations and Local Fiscal Conditions

   The Impact of Proposition 2½ in Massachusetts
   Documentos de trabajo
   Septiembre 2010
   Bruce Wallin and Jeffrey Zabel

   In Massachusetts, Proposition 2½ limits local property taxes to 2.5% of assessed value (the “levy ceiling”) and restricts the current limit on property tax revenue (the “levy...

2. Volatility of Individual Property Tax Payments

   Documentos de trabajo
   Marzo 2010
   Nathan B. Anderson

   The most important independent source of local government revenue in the United States is the property tax. Yet the widespread unpopularity of the property tax leads voters to support state policies...

3. Premature Subdivisions and What to Do About Them

   Documentos de trabajo
   Febrero 2010
   Donald Elliott

   As the recent economic recession has slowed the breakneck pace of growth in the western United States, many communities—from the Great Plains west to the Sierra Nevada Mountains—are...

4. Rural Real Estate Markets and Conservation Development In the Intermountain West

   Perspectives, Challenges and Opportunities Emerging from the Great Recession
   Documentos de trabajo
   Marzo 2010
   Bruce M. Burger and Randy Carpenter

   Across the Intermountain West, the wide-ranging impacts of the feverish growth in both first and second home ownership, as well as the acquisition of rural properties as investments, are just...

5. Revenue Diversification and the Financing of Large American Central Cities

   Documentos de trabajo
   Noviembre 2010
   Howard Chernick, Adam Langley, and Andrew Reschovsky

   The housing crisis and the recession have placed tremendous fiscal pressure on the nation’s central cities. Cuts in state government fiscal assistance to their local governments, plus shrinking...

6. The New American Ghost Town

   Foreclosure, Abandonment, and the Prospects for City Planning
   Documentos de trabajo
   Noviembre 2010
   Justin Hollander, Colin Polsky, Dan Zinder, and Dan Runfola

   Housing vacancy has been recognized as a significant factor that accelerates neighborhood decline. More recently, researchers and policymakers have reframed this problem as an opportunity for...

7. A Critical Review of Property Tax Relief in Wisconsin

   The School Levy Credit and the First Dollar Credit
   Documentos de trabajo
   Febrero 2010
   Andrew Reschovsky

   The State of Wisconsin is currently spending nearly $900 million to fund two property tax relief programs, the school levy credit and the first dollar credit. This paper provides a detailed analysis...